Make Money With Search Portals

You can easily make extra income or residual income with search portals. All you need is a domain name and to find a good parking company. Pretty simple. These are the steps you should take in making money from a search portal:

Find a good domain name. A good domain name is usually one that has one to three good keywords in it. For a quick search on whats popular, go to Google, enter a keyword and see how many results come up. I’m not kidding! This is one of the easiest and quickest ways of finding popular keywords. If you don’t already own the domain name, see if its available and or buy it on a domain registrar. Try GoDaddy, or NameCheap. *Note: You can use ANY domain name. But the people that make really good money, have really good keyword infused domain names. If you cant think of a domain name try a few domain name generators. This will be VERY helpful to you.

Once your done buying your domain name and setting it up (make sure you do the whoisguard), then you can find the parking site you want to go with. These sites are %100 free and if you see one that isn’t, I suggest staying away from it. Always follow all the Terms Of Service when joining these sites. You can get deleted if you go against what they tell you. Simply park your domain and direct traffic to it. You can contact the parking company and ask them what traffic you are and aren’t allowed to send. Try parking sites like Parked, Fabulous and Sedo.

Depending on a lot of different attributes, you can make anywhere from $1.00 to $1,000+ a month. It doesn’t depend on just one thing. Its a multitude of things. Is the domain good enough, is the parking site good enough, are you sending quality traffic, did you pick good keywords when setting the site up, did you optimize it? Most sites will help you with setting your account up. After all if you make money, they make money!

In order to find good info on domain parking, try DigitalPointForums & NamePros, they have lots of different information and people there that will help you out. Or do a search on Google for “Domain Name Help”, or “Domain Name Information.” To find domain parking sites, go to Google and try search terms relevant to Parking. Try “Domain Parking”, “Monetize Domains”, “Park my domain.”

Dictionary Domain Names: Can you still find and register them?

While doing research on the Internet for things that looked
interesting and had some moneymaking potential I stumbled across
a website dedicated to domain names. There are many, but that
particular site had loads of articles and helpful hints. One of
the articles caught my attention when it mentioned dictionary
domain names.

I immediately started thinking …yes; maybe I could register some
valuable dictionary domains and somehow make money from them.
That potential bubble was quickly burst when virtually
everything I could find about domain names indicated all the
good names had been registered. It seemed to be true. I spent
hours thinking up names, then checking, only to find they had
already been registered.

Now, true to all I’d read, I was only attempting to come up with
..com domain names since by now I too had come to believe the
best chance of making money from domain names was to own names
with the much more popular .com extension. There are, however,
significant exceptions but that will not concern us here.

After my initial failure to find decent domain names …almost all
the first two hundred names I thought were good were already
taken, I decided maybe I should take a different approach. I had
read several articles indicating dictionary domain names had
intrinsic value compared to non-dictionary URL’s. I agree,
however it still is not easy to sell a dictionary domain name,
or any domain name for that matter, in my experience. Even more
so, it seemed like all the single word dictionary names were
already registered, adding to my dismay in trying to find good
names to register.

It now became a challenge to find unregistered dictionary domain
names, with the dot com extension. I vowed to find some, no
matter what. Being a researcher at heart, but not totally sold
on pure Internet research, I decided to straddle the fence. I
would think up words and write them down on paper, then check
them out on a popular Internet website for correct spelling,
then check with a registrar to see if they were available to
register. It was rare to find any single word domain name that
was not already taken. Exceptions were very long undesirable
words.

Ok I thought, back to my college days. I got one of my original
college dictionaries, now some decades old, and started looking
up words. I started with the letter Z since I figured there are
fewer and less common words beginning with that letter. Knowing
it would be unlikely to be able to register any word I already
was familiar with I quickly scanned for unknown (words I did not
know) words. Bingo! Almost immediately, when I entered the word
zebeck.com to register it I was shocked to find it available to
register. I double-checked the spelling and the definition. When
I was sure there was no mistake I registered it.

After the initial shock of actually finding a dictionary word I
could register I made it a goal to spend several nights a week
for a month or more to try to find new words. I tried the F’s
and almost immediately found floccule. Looked up T’s and found
thulia. To make matters interesting I found javary, kamacite,
togate and others in my dictionary, but they did not show up in
the dictionary on the Internet. Double-checking for correctness,
I verified they were indeed true dictionary words and proceeded
to register the .com version of them.

In the process of using my old dictionary I noticed many
alternate versions of common words. Some I registered, such as
tythe (usual spelling is tithe), some I did not. You will also
find words not in one well-known dictionary but in another
popular dictionary. The word may or may not be in the Internet
dictionary(s). I haven’t used the dictionary (a real printed
dictionary) so frequently since I finished college. Because of
it my vocabulary has just expanded by probably a thousand or
more words.

As it turned out I was able to register many dictionary domains
using this method. Almost every sitting I was able to find one
or more words to register as a .com address. These were all
single word dictionary words. I usually spent from one-half hour
to once almost three hours at night, each time I checked my
trusty old dictionary. My goal was to find at least one word to
register. I think I only failed to do that once in many sittings
(actually I laid in bed most of the time). Now, as you can
imagine, each time I registered a name I felt good knowing I was
the owner of a domain name that had a real meaning. It was a
single word domain at that. Later I decided to find and register
hyphened dictionary words such as scrub-up, jury-rig, two-cycle,
puff-ball and others.

Lately I have been too busy to use this method. I have, however,
developed an effective shortcut or two. Try these if you want
dictionary words without spending too much time searching for
them:

1)When reading books, magazines, web pages, watching television,
etc. take note of any new or uncommon words. Check to see if any
are available to register. I registered UIIR (urotensin II
receptor), an acronym, and futzed using this method.

2)Subscribe to a domain name service (contact me for a
recommendation) and look to see dictionary domains that have
very recently expired or are expiring within the next few days.
You can find names still available to register but you have to
act fast because most decent names usually get snapped up
quickly.

3)You can sign-up with many registrars to get expiring
dictionary domains, for a price. However, now I believe there is
an auction on them if more than one person applies for the same
name. Using this method I was able to get yolky and waeg dot com
names by paying less than $70 each.

Each of the above three methods have yielded good results for me
whenever I used them; resulting in dictionary domain names I
never would have thought were available. Words such as stellary,
sexological, chinless, radishs, and shrilly, although not so
common, were easily registered.

As to the value of over 75 dictionary names I have registered
using the above three methods there is some uncertainty as to
what they are worth. This is an unanswerable question until they
are sold or otherwise used. A future article will detail some of
my research to see what potential value lies in these dictionary
domain names.

Making money from expired domain registration

Expired domain names are those that had previously been
registered to another owner. These domain name registration are
available to the open market because of non-payment of the
domain name renewal fees. These domain names are returned to the
open market approximately forty-five days after the domain
registration expiration date.

Subsequent to the dot com crash, expired domain names and
expired domain name traffic have been a source of profits for
many. It is critical to obtain, at a low cost, the automated
tools required to track the thousands of domain registration and
abandoned websites that are removed from the registry and become
available for purchase.

Now, many automated tools and resources are available for
identifying, appraising and even buying these domain
registration on an automated basis.

Expired domain names and the expired domain name traffic
associated with them have been only available to those who had
an automated system and tools.

Numerous domain names are registered for website development,
but do not appear online. In a number of these cases, the domain
name owners do not follow through with respect to the website
development and allow the domain registration to expire.

Also, many domain names even point to fully functioning websites
while many are registered for speculation. Such names are
registered by speculators in the hope of obtaining a profit on
the resale of the domain name registration.

However, there are a number of expired domain names with fully
functioning websites, receiving daily traffic from the search
engines, links and banner ads. The expired domain names that get
this daily traffic can earn revenues if these are redirected to
another website or marketed with affiliate programs.

How To Earn Profits from Expired Domain Names & Expired Domain
Name Traffic:

1. Buying for speculation – There is a large and highly
profitable market for reselling domain names at present, and
speculators are constantly looking out for developing
technologies and trends. Evolution is constantly taking place in
technology and trends. There are markets, being watched closely
right now, that are expected to grow exponentially within a
short span of time. It should be a good idea to locate and
register expiring domain names that are related to new trends,
technology and markets in order to earn substantial profits.

2. Buying expiring domain registration and redirecting the
targeted traffic – Targeted keyword domain names can help to get
traffic from those simply typing in keyword rich domain names
into the address bar and hitting the enter key.

3. Buying expired domain name registration and putting up
generic websites – Using tools like easy website building
software, third party payment processors, auto responders and
other applications, even a novice could put generic websites
online with keyword rich domain names that should appear in the
search engine rankings. These websites can be built using
expired domain names to drive traffic to them and the domain
name registration and the developed website could then be sold
together with the domain name, as a value added commodity.

4. Buying expiring domain names of websites that are already
online – A number of expiring domain names are, actually,
already functioning websites. The owners of these websites
either did not renew their domain registration for some reason
or simply stopped operating the website. In fact, quite often,
these websites already have traffic from links to other
websites, search engine rankings and even directory listings.

5. Buying expired domain names and using them for marketing
affiliate programs – Affiliate programs are a good way to
acquire an online business without even having a product.
Affiliate marketers redirect traffic from the affiliate website
to the website of the actual product or service and charge a
commission or a fee when any of the redirected traffic results
in sales. Affiliate programs have become an automated turnkey
solution for a number of entrepreneurs, especially novices.

One can locate and register expired domain name registration
that closely target the market of the affiliate programs and
then draw that targeted traffic into the website with expired
keyword rich domain names with content that satisfies the
informational needs. Then the users can be led onto the sales
page of the product.